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Shirley Chisholm and other Black women have set their eyes on the Oval Office for 50 years. Now it’s within reach.

The need for safe, accessible, regular neighborhood childcare — already taken for granted in many European cities — is a COVID-19 lesson that American women who vote can and should demand.

Medicare for All has won the battle of ideas. Now we have to win the battle against entrenched economic and political power.

The more U.S. movements are infused with internationalism, the more we contribute to getting Washington’s bloody hands out of other countries. That bolsters the capacity of people in other lands to improve their lives and fight our common enemy.

The 1970 murder of a U.S. police advisor in Uruguay offers lessons for police reform debates today.

What if state officials targeted people who shared an Instagram post criticizing the government for criminalizing the poor and not providing mass testing or economic relief?

At a time of pandemic-related crises all throughout our society, the crisis in childcare is particularly brutal. There’s only one solution: free public early childhood education for all.

Among the most brutal realities for Palestinians is loss of support from Arab states, who pay lip service to their own populations, while drawing closer to Israel with economic interests and Iran in mind.

US billionaires’ wealth is soaring while millions remain unemployed, creating a country with two economies and increased inequality

How the race to develop treatments and a vaccine will create a historic windfall for the industry — and everyone else will pay the price.